Pith Number

pith:5VKG4SDP

pith:2021:5VKG4SDPDPLFEKQNJSPEDWGGYA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Salience-Aware Event Chain Modeling for Narrative Understanding

Jonathan May, Muhao Chen, Xiyang Zhang

arxiv:2109.10475 v1 · 2021-09-22 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5VKG4SDPDPLFEKQNJSPEDWGGYA}

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4 Citations open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T03:16:36.606670Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed546e486f1bd6522a0d4c9e41d8c6c0031e3b9aa507bc7bb93af65212057259

Aliases

arxiv: 2109.10475 · arxiv_version: 2109.10475v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2109.10475 · pith_short_12: 5VKG4SDPDPLF · pith_short_16: 5VKG4SDPDPLFEKQN · pith_short_8: 5VKG4SDP

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5VKG4SDPDPLFEKQNJSPEDWGGYA \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: ed546e486f1bd6522a0d4c9e41d8c6c0031e3b9aa507bc7bb93af65212057259

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "97f14a48081cf34eab09fac4971a0650d3836a8c7b9af339058600456417f571",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2021-09-22T01:34:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "078a89ef6d185ee60d6c45c744adca14ab08b6a8398d8d03bd3fe3b3d7d70ad2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2109.10475",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}